# Joan Cornellà Joan Cornellà is a Spanish cartoonist whose surreal, dark-humor web comics feature grinning characters caught in violent and taboo scenarios. His silent four-panel strips built a global online following starting in 2013 and became some of the most reposted comic art on Facebook, Tumblr, and Reddit. ## Origin Joan Cornellà Vázquez was born January 11, 1981 in Barcelona and studied fine arts before working for Spanish outlets such as La cultura del Duodeno, El Jueves, El Periódico, and Ara, and illustrating for The New York Times[1]. His first compilation, Abulio, won the Joseph Coll Prize in 2009[3]. He launched his own website on January 17, 2011 with a Blogspot introduction post titled "Mi nuebo bloj," which linked to an interview with the Spanish comics publication Tebeosfera[2]. - **Platform:** Blogspot (source) / Facebook and Tumblr (viral spread) - **Creator:** Joan Cornellà Vázquez - **Date:** 2013 ## Overview The strips typically use a candy-bright pop-art palette with wide-mouthed characters smiling through gore, dismemberment, suicide gags, and social taboo violations[3]. Most run four to six wordless panels ending in a twist, and the gap between the cheerful drawing style and the grotesque punchline is the entire mechanism of the joke[1]. Recurring subjects include selfies with corpses, casual cannibalism, race and disability humor, and inversions of everyday politeness. Cornellà rarely gives his strips titles or captions, which lets them travel across languages without translation and helped them spread through image reposts more efficiently than dialogue-heavy web comics[3]. Fans and shock-art accounts on Facebook, Tumblr, and Reddit picked up individual panels out of context, often reposting them stripped of credit or attribution[4]. ## How It Spread Cornellà opened a Facebook page on February 14, 2013 that pulled in more than 2 million likes within two years[5]. A Twitter account followed on March 19, 2013, gathering roughly 194,000 followers by mid-2015[6]. He joined Tumblr on May 20, 2013, and individual strips there picked up hundreds of notes per post[3]. A dedicated subreddit, /r/joancornella, went up on October 20, 2013 and drew a few hundred subscribers in its first two years[4]. His comics also crossed into general meme communities. A Cornellà strip posted to /r/Unexpected on July 19, 2014 gained 2,981 upvotes at 91% positive[7]. Since that period he expanded from web reposts into physical shows, touring solo gallery exhibitions internationally and releasing multiple print compilations of the strips first published online[1]. ## How to Use There is no fill-in template. Cornellà's strips spread as-is: users repost the original wordless four-panel image on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or Reddit, typically with no caption, and let the visual punchline do the work[3]. Because the panels have no dialogue, the same image travels between languages without editing[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Joan Cornellà? Joan Cornellà is a Spanish cartoonist known for surreal, wordless four-panel web comics in which grinning characters commit or suffer gruesome, taboo acts[1][3]. ### Where did Joan Cornellà come from? He started his personal Blogspot on January 17, 2011[2] and went viral after opening Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr accounts in early 2013[3]. ### What does Joan Cornellà mean? Joan Cornellà Vázquez is the real name of the Barcelona-born cartoonist, and online the name refers to his body of dark-humor comic work rather than a single image[1]. ### How do you use Joan Cornellà? People typically repost his silent strips without caption on Facebook, Tumblr, or Reddit, since the wordless panels carry the joke across languages[3][4]. ### Is Joan Cornellà still popular? His social accounts drew millions of followers by 2015[5][6], and he expanded from web reposts to international gallery tours and print compilations of his comics[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/opinion/sunday/on-legs-seats-and-subway-etiquette.html]() 2. [http://joancornella.blogspot.com/2011/01/mi-nuebo-bloj.html]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/joan-cornella]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/joancornella/]() 5. [https://www.facebook.com/joancornella]() 6. [https://twitter.com/JoanCornella]() 7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/2b5rn5/joan_cornella_a_master_of_the_unexpected/]() 8. [http://joancornella.tumblr.com/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/joan-cornella Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library